Books

hello beautiful people, I've read Parenti's Inventing Reality and have in my shelf an unopened copy of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent (as well as Ellul's Propaganda)

now I love Parenti but don't really care for Chomsky, I was gonna give him a shot but honestly in light of the recent Epstein connections I really cba; also I've skimmed through some of Manufacturing Consent and I can't escape reading it in Chomsky's awful talking cadence, whereas obviously I loved so many passages on Inventing Reality where Parenti's usual eloquent passion shines through so beautifully

so I'm thinking of gifting Manufacturing Consent to my sister for xmas, which is someone quite left-leaning but still very haunted by the scary ghosts of communism; and I feel like the book is way less overtly marxist than Inventing Reality, which might be a good thing in this situation

my questions are then: for those who've read it, am I missing something by not picking up Manufacturing Consent? is it so boring that it's not even an interesting gift?

ty, xoxo